Table 3.8
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by census metropolitan area, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Victims of family violence, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Note 1, Note 2 Victims of family violenceNote 3
number rateNote 4
Saguenay 133 467.7
Trois-Rivières 94 378.4
Kingston 90 312.9
Québec 410 305.1
Moncton 81 304.6
Saskatoon 174 279.6
GatineauNote 5 172 258.3
Greater Sudbury 74 244.2
Halifax 173 240.5
Montréal 1,805 236.3
Sherbrooke 81 230.5
Saint John 64 223.4
Winnipeg 363 219.4
Brantford 59 210.2
Edmonton 555 210.1
Kelowna 67 208.5
Abbotsford-Mission 82 206.6
Peterborough 43 205.3
Regina 97 198.4
HamiltonNote 6 207 194.5
St. John's 64 170.9
Thunder Bay 36 170.6
Windsor 103 167.2
London 157 159.7
Vancouver 691 156.2
TorontoNote 7 1,645 154.0
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 175 153.0
Victoria 79 141.0
Calgary 401 137.8
St. Catharines-Niagara 110 134.4
Barrie 55 119.6
Guelph 31 118.1
OttawaNote 8 189 98.0
CMA TotalNote 9 8,831 183.6
Non CMA Total 7,911 382.9
Canada 16,742 243.5
Note 1.

A census metroplitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), extended family and spouses.

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Note 4.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 populations. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 5.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.

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Note 6.

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police that polices the CMA of Hamilton.

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Note 7.

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police that police the CMA of Toronto.

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Note 8.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.

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Note 9.

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one CMA. This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMA. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note: Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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